This volume is the product of an international conference of economic historians and archaeologists held in 2002 at the University of Cambridge. The editors invited participants "to check the pulse of ancient economic history" (8)...... (read more at BMCR)

Only one chapter explicitly deals with Egypt, (Sitta von Reden, "The Ancient Economy and Ptolemaic Egypt"), about which the reviewer says nothing. Egypt is a constant reference point, however, especially in Peter Fibiger Bang, "Imperial Bazaar" (which is mentioned in the review) and Willem Jongman, "The rise and fall of the Roman economy: population, rents, and entitlement."